Paper Title
Engaging with the Bailey Review: blogging, academia and authenticity
Keywords
- bailey review
- letting children be children
- blogging
- academia
- authenticity
- commercialisation
- sexualisation
- childhood
- department of education
- public discourse
- impact
- academic communication
- speaking about sex
- translation of scholarly work
- uk policy
- sex
- media representation
- academic blogging
- sexualisation of children
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 3 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 69-94
Published On
November, 2011
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Abstract
This article reproduces and discusses a series of blog posts posted by academics in anticipation of the report on commercialisation, sexualisation and childhood, ‘Letting Children Be Children’ by Reg Bailey for the UK Department of Education in June 2011. The article discusses the difficulty of ‘translating’ scholarly work for the public in a context where ‘impact’ is increasingly important and the challenges that academics face in finding new ways of speaking about sex in public.
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